CPB Names Kaplan Ombudsman

The Corporate for Public Broadcasting has named Joel
Kaplan as its new ombudsman.

Kaplan is the associated dean of the S.I. Newhouse School
of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

The ombudsman's office was
established in 2005 amidst charges by then CPB chairman Ken Tomlinson of a
liberal bias in some of the noncom programming funed by CPB, which distributes
the approximately 15%, on average, of noncommercial station budget supplied by
government funding.

The House Energy & Commerce Committee will “examine certain editorial and employment standards and practices” at National Public Radio as part of its communications oversight, according to the committee oversight plan